Suffolk workers are not not highly paid as a group (ONS stas shows 40% of all workers in Suffolk are paid less than £17,000 a year – over £1000 LESS than the national average) . Except when it comes to the eye-wateringly high salaries dished out to the top execs at Suffolk County Council. Just to remind you, the Chief Executive is paid £230.000 per [...]
If we don’t reregulate I fear the buses are reaching a Beeching situation. And when we lose a functioning service for good we will truly pauperise many people and prevent them from contributing to the economic recovery which we all [...]

Our new government has just instituted a £500 rule which means that all public expenditure over this sum has to be publically declared – and justified. The people of Suffolk should rise up and demand that the same rule applies to their [...]
There are a hundred and seventy Whitehall Civil Service chiefs who earn more than the prime minister.
There are only two or three who earn more than our Suffolk County Council Chief Executive Andrea [...]
Yet in Suffolk, hard-pressed tax payers, people who see the pot-holes daily increasing outside their doors, are being asked by the Conservative administration to shell out as much as £122,000 just to help our highly paid senior managers to save money. At least we assume thats what its for. As they were asking that this spend didn’t have to go out to public tender we really dont have much idea WHAT its going to be spent [...]